Experts Urge Rapid Patching of ‘Struts’ Bug | Cyber Security
In September 2017, Equifax disclosed that a failure to patch one of its Internet servers against a pervasive software flaw — in a Web component known…
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Using smart meter data constitutes a search, but court allows them anyway | Cyber Security
US cities using smart meters narrowly escaped a legal problem this month when a court decided that the benefits of these IoT devices outweighed the…
Alleged SIM swapper reportedly stole enough cryptocurrency to buy a McLaren | Cyber Security
SIM cards are small slivers of plastic with an embedded chip used in smartphones for authentication, identification and encryption of voice and…
Former Facebook security chief warns ‘it’s too late to protect 2018 elections’ | Cyber Security
Alex Stamos, the former security chief at Facebook, says the US “risks allowing its elections to become the World Cup of information warfare.”…
Unencrypted laptop exposes personal details of 37,000 Eir customers, faulty security update blamed |…
It’s not great when any organisation loses a laptop, but if the contents of the computer’s hard drive have been fully encrypted and a strong password…
New Apache Struts RCE Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over Web Servers | Cyber Security
Semmle security researcher Man Yue Mo has disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application…
Make the Most of the New CIS Controls v7 | Cyber Security
Recently, the Center for Internet Security (CIS) released its next revision of the Top 20 Security Controls. Initially developed by the SANS…
The Power and Practicality of Blockchain | Cyber Security
The promise of blockchain is boundless, but the technology is often met with skepticism due to unknown security, practicality, and adoptability…
How an uploaded image could take over your website, and how to stop it | Cyber Security
Vulnerability hunter Tavis Ormandy just reported a series of security problems in an application called Ghostscript.
Ormandy works for Google’s…
Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Critical Flaws in Photoshop CC | Cyber Security
Adobe released an out-of-band security update earlier today to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting Adobe Photoshop…